Cage

/keɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation..

Definitions by Sense

1. An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
2. The passenger compartment of a lift.
3. (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
4. Short for roll cage, a protective structure around the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
5. (by extension, US, slang) Synonym of automobile.
6. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
7. (slang) A prison or prison cell.
8. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.

Example Sentences

We keep a bird in a cage.

The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.

The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.

For his father had / never a house but the cage.

Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage.

Schwartz examines with dignity and tenderness the battles within and without of […] families, created and biological, and the cages and freedom they can provide.

My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key

The 'out of the closet' lesbians and gay men here in the Iowa Cages are harassed and discriminated daily by oppressive pigs, believe me, I know, as a lesbian I've experienced it first hand and seen my fellow lesbian and gay friends oppressed to where I'm ready to explode.

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• cages
• kage
• caging
• caged

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